STF Upholds Preventive Arrest of Bolsonaro Aide Filipe Martins Over Alleged Social-Media Breach

Overview

• An STF magistrate maintained Martins’ preventive detention on Friday following a custody hearing in Ponta Grossa, and he remains held at the local public jail.
• Moraes said the prohibition covered direct and third‑party access to platforms and cited the defense’s own admission of activity on Martins’ LinkedIn account as evidence of noncompliance.
• An email from reserve Air Force officer Ricardo Wagner Roquetti reporting a LinkedIn profile view attributed to Martins was added to the case and cited in Moraes’ decision.
• Martins had been on court-ordered house arrest since December 27 due to flight‑risk concerns after other defendants tried to flee, including Silvinei Vasques’s intercepted attempt and Alexandre Ramagem’s departure from the country.
• Convicted in December to 21 years and six months for his role in the alleged coup plot, Martins is appealing; his lawyers deny any breach and say they, not he, accessed accounts for evidentiary purposes as allies of Bolsonaro denounce judicial overreach.